Example sentences of "you go [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 2 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 3 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 4 | So , instead , she said , ‘ If all you do is fight with him , why on earth do you go on working for him ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 6 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 7 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 8 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |